Makers of ancient strategy
Subtitle: from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome
By: edited and Introduced by Victor Davis Hanson.
Contributors: Hanson, Victor Davis.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691137902
Subjects: Military art and science -- History -- To 500; Military history, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Persia with love : propaganda and imperial overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars / Tom Holland; title: Pericles, Thucydides, and the defense of empire / Donald Kagan; title: Why fortifications endure : A case study of the walls of Athens during the classical period / David L. Berkey; title: Epaminondas the Theban and the doctrine of preemptive war / Victor Davis Hanson; title: Alexander the Great, nation building, and the creation and maintenance of empire / Ian Worthington; title: Urban warfare in the classical Greek world / John W. I. Lee; title: Counterinsurgency and the enemies of Rome / Susan Mattern; title: Slave wars of Greece and Rome / Barry Strauss; title: Julius Caesar and the general as state; title: Adrian Goldsworthy; title: Holding the line : frontier defense and the later Roman Empire; title: Peter J. Heather.